<p>I'm going to a Spanish immersion camp this year because I want to gain speaking ability, but I found out that I can get credit for it, and have it appear on my transcript and everything. I'm currently in Spanish II and am doing very well... if I didn't keep forgetting my homework, I'd have a 100. I haven't talked to my teacher about skipping a year, I mentioned it when I told her that I was going to the camp, she didn't really give a definitive answer either way. So anyway, what kinds of topics are covered in Spanish 3 that would be bad to miss? I mean, most of the stuff will probably be covered at the camp, but the camp isn't as structured as a school class, so some things might get skipped. I found out that I need to take the Spanish 3 mid-term and final, so, if I'm already doing well this year, is there anything that hard on there that would cause me not to pass after attending 4 weeks of Spanish camp? I heard that Spanish 3 is mostly a review of 1 and 2.</p>
<p>I think Spanish 3 is like more or less preterite/imperfect review and an introduction to subjunctive.</p>
<p>You are absolutely correct: Spanish 3 is just a review of Spanish 1 and 2. We didn't learn anything new in Spanish 3 and my friends in Spanish 2 were learning the exact same material as us (and at the same pace). IDK, maybe my teacher is a retard, but for me this was a complete waste of a year of Spanish. </p>
<p>My advice: skip Spanish 3, especially if you go to that camp.</p>
<p>Hmm...interesting. My Spanish 2 class must have been very accelerated because I learned: Preterite, Future, Imperfect, Por/Para, Present Progressive, Subjunctive, and many other tenses that I will never use in my life. Spanish 3 was just a review of all these tenses, so if you know these, you should be fine for Spanish 4. </p>
<p>Speaking Spanish is a completely different story: I actually didn't get any experience speaking the language in Spanish 3 (or any Spanish class for that matter). I'm sure that camp will help you will speak Spanish better, though. </p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
<p>It depends. In a more standardized class, you are supposed to learn more vocabulary (obviously), much more of the literary tenses (past subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive, past anterior, future perfect, etc.) rather than the more simple ones (conditional, future, past perfect, etc.). In general, spanish 1 and 2 are for modern communication and conversation, whereas spanish 3 and higher are supposed to be for a more culturally immersed, literary course. Also, fluency is usually common by this level. You could probably take ap spanish for spanish 3.</p>
<p>You can tell by the scope of most spanish 3 textbooks.</p>
<p>i was in the same situation as cosine45. I also don't think spanish camp is necessary just for speaking. I just talk to random latinos and latinas on teh subway. lol.</p>
<p>Spanish 3 was a lot of review, but it was more in-depth. A lot of little things like idoms thrown in, too.</p>
<p>At my school, Spanish 3 was not a review. We learned subjunctive ad nauseam and more idiomatic phrases. More importantly, we had to write several essays and analyses.</p>
<p>Asking your Spanish teacher what exactly is covered in your school's Spanish 3 class is probably the best way to determine whether or not to skip it.</p>
<p>If you really want to learn Spanish, why not take it at a college? With two years of high school Spanish you could probably test into Spanish II at a college (two years of high school foreign language is roughly equivelent to one year at college).</p>
<p>Wow we covered a lot more in Spanish III.</p>
<p>Thorough review of Spanish I
Subjunctive
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Condicional
Future Tense
Haber w/ Subjunctive
9871313 Vocab Words
128716 Short stories</p>
<p>and a crapload of other stuff that I'm too lazy to remember.</p>
<p>"If you really want to learn Spanish, why not take it at a college? With two years of high school Spanish you could probably test into Spanish II at a college (two years of high school foreign language is roughly equivelent to one year at college)."</p>
<p>While this may be slightly unrelated to this topic, I don't think the whole going from Spanish 2 to Spanish II at a college works. I thought that worked, and that brought my hopes up for skipping Spanish 3, but according to my GC and a Spanish teacher at the community college, Spanish II is, in fact, equivalent to a Spanish 2 course taught at high school. Maybe I'm just unlucky with different systems...</p>
<p>claro que si menso...si no puedes leer esto... es impotante...</p>
<p>Yeah... Colleges look at this stuff... Schools love it when you know 3 languages too... so just take it... take spanish 4 if you have the time too...</p>
<p>The Spanish class at the community college must be really weak then. At most colleges, things typically learned in a third-year high school language like the subjunctive are learned in the second year. If you have already learned a good deal of what jamesford posted, then you could probably get into a Spanish III class at a college.</p>
<p>"Wow we covered a lot more in Spanish III.</p>
<p>Thorough review of Spanish I
Subjunctive
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Condicional
Future Tense
Haber w/ Subjunctive
9871313 Vocab Words
128716 Short stories"</p>
<p>We covered most of those things this year in Spanish II, except the Subjunctive and Haber with Subjunctive, which probably means even more so that Spanish III will be just a review with a few new things.</p>
<p>Spanish 3 was the most vital year for me. We reviewed preterite and imperfect and did all the other tenses from future to subjunctive, past subjunctive, conditional, and grammatical/syntactical stuff.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the school. Because for me Spanish 4 was a joke.</p>
<p>Related question... if I take a university 4th semester Spanish course over the summer, should I sign up for IB SL or IB HL next year? Leaning towards HL but I don't want to be in over my head.</p>
<p>spanish III was the hardest class ive ever taken (and im good at spanish). At least at my school (in socal) it's really hard. It was all subjunctive, no review.</p>